Re: Quite agitated!

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Posted by Gigi on September 29, 1999 at 15:29:14:

In Reply to: Re: Quite agitated! posted by Ed on September 27, 1999 at 20:43:10:

> > What's the difference between "creation" and "special creation?"

> If you consider that there are billions of galaxies and that there is a very small lonely pale blue planet, Earth, where petty human rulers kill in the name of their god and to dominate their meager parcel of land, which in the scheme of things is incredibly unimportant, you must still contend with the fact that the universe is incredibly vast and unimaginably complex. Who or what is responsible on the grander scale?

> Even a scientist must ponder the cosmos and wonder why.

> Ed

Scientists have been pondering on that for a long time now. Stephen Hawkings says the universe is a quantum fluctuation from a pre-existing vacuum. This quantum vacuum is the underlying, lowest energy state of all, the source of everything. It cannot be measured; it is just a pre-existence. It is a sea of potentiality. The properties of real life, the actualities, can be seen and measured. But quantum systems have emergent properties like position, momentum, spin, energy. These potentialities are indeterminate (they do not exist). They can evolve and interfere with each other. Their interactions give rise to actualities. Real processes can be started. Thus, potentiality is the source of existence.
Heisenberg says reality is a play between potentiality and actuality, between facts and possibilities. He showed that if a particle's position is known, the momentum becomes fuzzy. Schrodinger's wave function says that there are an infinite # of outcomes if anything is measured. All of this thinking is actually very close to mysticism, especially Eastern ones.

So physics and other aspects of science have reached a whole new paradigm in the last half of this century. It has rejected reductionism which says that the whole can be broken down into its smaller parts. But the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and things cannot be considered as smooth and predictable any more.

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> > > What's the difference between "creation" and "special creation?" > > If you consider that there are billions of galaxies and that there is a very small lonely pale blue planet, Earth, where petty human rulers kill in the name of their god and to dominate their meager parcel of land, which in the scheme of things is incredibly unimportant, you must still contend with the fact that the universe is incredibly vast and unimaginably complex. Who or what is responsible on the grander scale? > > Even a scientist must ponder the cosmos and wonder why. > > Ed > Scientists have been pondering on that for a long time now. Stephen Hawkings says the universe is a quantum fluctuation from a pre-existing vacuum. This quantum vacuum is the underlying, lowest energy state of all, the source of everything. It cannot be measured; it is just a pre-existence. It is a sea of potentiality. The properties of real life, the actualities, can be seen and measured. But quantum systems have emergent properties like position, momentum, spin, energy. These potentialities are indeterminate (they do not exist). They can evolve and interfere with each other. Their interactions give rise to actualities. Real processes can be started. Thus, potentiality is the source of existence. > Heisenberg says reality is a play between potentiality and actuality, between facts and possibilities. He showed that if a particle's position is known, the momentum becomes fuzzy. Schrodinger's wave function says that there are an infinite # of outcomes if anything is measured. All of this thinking is actually very close to mysticism, especially Eastern ones. > So physics and other aspects of science have reached a whole new paradigm in the last half of this century. It has rejected reductionism which says that the whole can be broken down into its smaller parts. But the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and things cannot be considered as smooth and predictable any more. > > > > > >

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